Put the flour, sugar and salt in a mixing bowl, melt the yeast in warm milk and add it to the flour. Now also add the egg and butter and knead the dough. Finally, add the raisins. Prove the dough for about 45 minutes. Then form rolls and prove them for another 15 minutes. Smear them with milk and pop them in the oven. The roles are ready when they get brown.

It was a lovely month and I really enjoyed sharing my favourite recipes with you, trying out new ones and finding out about different cultures and their recipes. I hope you enjoyed the blog as much as I did! 🙂

Make a yeast dough. Put the flour into a mixing bowl, make a hole in the middle of the flour and crumble the yeast into it. Put the sugar on the yeast, the salt on the surrounding flour. Melt the butter and add it with the milk and water to the bowl. Knead it. Prove the dough. Knead the dough again and form rolls. Then brush the rolls with water and put them in the oven (ca 240°C, ca 15-20 minutes). Put a bowl of water into the oven with the rolls!

Even though rock’n’roll has not really something to do with this recipe for rolls, I started thinking about the term rock’n’roll. Okay, I know what rock’n’roll is, a music genre, and I probably could also identify some typical rock’n’roll musicians. But why is it called “rock’n’roll”??? This site argues that the word “roll” was associated with sex. They give examples of sayings: “Let’s go for a roll in the hay”, for example. In the early 1900s rock had become to mean dancing to music with a “strong beat”. Rock and roll then merged together and stood for dancing sexually or even having sex. That seems plausible for me because rock’n’roll had been scandalous back then. Just think about Elvis’ hip movements… 😀 Rock’n’roll was also associated with Black musicians and was later promoted as a label to sell Black music to white people.

My rolls tasted great but unfortunately did not look very good. Today was not my day to work with yeast apparently! But I will try it again! Still, I believe the recipe is great, try it yourself and post fotos of your rolls, if you like!